{"id":32857,"date":"2020-06-26T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2621436"},"modified":"2020-06-26T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:28:00","slug":"microsoft-is-permanently-shutting-down-its-retail-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/26\/microsoft-is-permanently-shutting-down-its-retail-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is permanently shutting down its retail stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4126-logo-1-1214.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-excerpt\"><strong>Only the stores in London, New York City, Sydney and Redmond campus will remain open, but they will be &lsquo;reimagined&rsquo; by the company.<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-excerpt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-excerpt\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pocketnow.com\/files\/2020\/06\/microsoft_store-800x452.jpg\" width=\"591\" height=\"335\" \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-excerpt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Microsoft&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/microsoft-store-locations-temporarily-closing-due-covid-19-porter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">temporarily closed<\/a>&nbsp;its physical stores back in March in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, just like many other companies. Now, in a major business strategy shift, the company has announced that it is&nbsp;closing its physical retail stores, almost all of them across the globe, and is going to rely on its online sales and services channel.<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-excerpt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-excerpt\">\n<p>As for the members in its retail team,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pocketnow.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a>&nbsp;says they will&nbsp;<em>&ldquo;continue to serve customers working from Microsoft corporate facilities or remotely and we will continue to develop our diverse team in support of the overall company mission and objectives.&rdquo;<\/em>&nbsp;However, Microsoft will keep its London, New York City, Sydney, and Redmond campus locations open.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it will &lsquo;reimagine&rsquo; the space in the aforementioned stores, but how exactly it will come to fruition is yet to be revealed. With Microsoft Stores gone, the company will continue to develop its digital customer assistance solutions such as 1-on-1 video sales assistance, video tutorials, and more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pocketnow.com\/microsoft-is-permanently-shutting-down-its-retail-stores\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/pocketnow.com\/microsoft-is-permanently-shutting-down-its-retail-stores<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Nadeem Sarwar<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Nadeem Sarwar<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4126-logo-1-1214.png\" alt=\"\">Only the stores in London, New York City, Sydney and Redmond campus will remain open, but they will be &lsquo;reimagined&rsquo; by the company. &nbsp; &nbsp; Microsoft&nbsp;temporarily closed&nbsp;its physical stores back in March in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, just like many other companies. Now, in a major business strategy shift, the company has announced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/26\/microsoft-is-permanently-shutting-down-its-retail-stores\/\">Continue reading <span>Microsoft is permanently shutting down its retail stores<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/26\/microsoft-is-permanently-shutting-down-its-retail-stores\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft is permanently shutting down its retail stores - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/26\/microsoft-is-permanently-shutting-down-its-retail-stores\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Microsoft is permanently shutting down its retail stores - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Only the stores in London, New York City, Sydney and Redmond campus will remain open, but they will be &lsquo;reimagined&rsquo; by the company. &nbsp; &nbsp; Microsoft&nbsp;temporarily closed&nbsp;its physical stores back in March in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, just like many other companies. 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